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Cold feet or getting real?

By pfhagermark ⋅ April 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Now the optimistic hyperbolic analysts are getting cold feet. In a recent study by Juniper as reported about here, it is now expected that the effect of the recession will eat into the growth of mobile entertainment revenues. In Juniper’s case they say the growth will be half of what they previously said.
Well in my [...]

Why do we make phone calls?

By pfhagermark ⋅ February 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Time to get a bit philosophical about the whole mobile thing. It must be the sun and the early signs of spring here in Provence on my mini-holiday that inspire me to this thinking.
Norman Lewis of Wireless Grids asked this brilliant question in the header – Why do we make phone calls? He wants us to [...]

Hallelujah!

By pfhagermark ⋅ February 19, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

That’s the spirit! Reading about the latest MEF initiative “Smart pipes”. None of this “dumb pipes” language. It is smart pipes we need. If this initiative moves on in a bold way with no prestige involved major leaps can be taken here. Go go go go!

Required reading for all developers!

By pfhagermark ⋅ September 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

First of all a correction, it is supposedly 100 m downloads now at the AppStore. I finally got time to check out the facts from the latest Apple hoopla. So 100 m downloads in 60 days. Pretty strong. But my follow-up questions on who really makes money there and what the future brings are still [...]

Mobile apps RIP or not?

By pfhagermark ⋅ February 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The glove has been thrown. Or rather some one has spoken up. In Michael Mace’s very well written post about the death of mobile applications, we also learn much about the mobile content value chain in general.
Fragmentation is a major hurdle in this case. Young small (and often quite weak financially) developers try to [...]

Wireless Developer Forum in Cambridge

By pfhagermark ⋅ February 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I will speak on the subject of mobile social networking at 10 March. I am working on the material at the moment. The plan is to cover a bit about the market, the challenges for developers and the opportunities. You will get a 100 GBP discount on the conference fee for the event if you click here. Do [...]

Whodunnit?

By pfhagermark ⋅ July 27, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Well who needs to speed up towards the common goal of more and better social networking in the mobile was too long a title. Anyway, just read the results of a poll taken at 3GSM in Barcelona. The last question caught my interest:
Who provides the biggest obstacle to bringing social networking to the mobile?
Mobile [...]

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